The Debtor System: Starting with a debt of 1 billion

Chapter 11: The Undercurrents on the Eve of the Public Auction

The night in Yangon was as dark as ink, the air thick with the damp scent unique to the Irrawaddy River. Inside the warehouse temporarily rented by Yunnan Jade, the lights shone as bright as day.

"Mr. Lin, the situation is not good."

Wu Qinmao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and turned his laptop screen towards Lin Yu. The screen, which had been filled with the dense serial numbers and estimated weights of the top-bid rough stones, had now turned into a jumble of characters. Then a skull icon popped up, with a line of text in Burmese below: "Greedy hyenas, get out of Myanmar."

"This is... a hacker attack?" Su Yuqing leaned closer, her brows furrowed. "How could the official database of the public auction be hacked?"

"It's not an official database." Lin Yu stared at the screen, his eyes cold. "This is Chairman Wu's private internal intelligence network. They know we have the lead on the top bidder; this is a deliberate attempt to undermine our confidence."

Wu Qinmao's face turned deathly pale: "This is it. This batch of data is something I've accumulated over ten years, recording the shipping patterns of major mining sites in Hpakant over the past five years. Without this, we simply wouldn't be able to identify those few true 'top-tier' stones among thousands upon thousands of rough stones."

"Without data, we're just running around like headless chickens. This tactic from our competitors is ruthless!"

The warehouse was deathly silent; a chill ran through everyone. With only 48 hours left until the auction opened, the loss of intelligence at this point was practically a death sentence.

"What's the panic?"

Lin Yu stood up and tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

[Ding! A major intelligence crisis has been detected facing the host, triggering the passive skill: Language Proficiency (Grandmaster Level).]

[High-strength encrypted Burmese signal detected. Should we attempt to crack it?]

"System, connect to the warehouse's wireless network and track the source of that hacker's signal," Lin Yu commanded in his mind.

"But Mr. Lin, we don't understand computer technology..." Wu Qinmao said in despair.

"If technology can't solve it, use your brain." Lin Yu sneered, his pupils slightly contracting, and countless streams of flowing code and waveforms instantly appeared on his retina.

With the system's assistance, the originally chaotic jumbled code began to automatically reassemble in his eyes. Moreover, a faint radio wave vibration seemed to emanate from the air—the physical traces left by the hacker remotely controlling the server.

"Burmese coded message...decoding in progress..."

The translated text automatically appeared in Lin Yu's mind:

"...The target has fallen into the trap; Wu Qinmao's data has been destroyed. Have 'Cobra' prepare to transport that batch of fake winning bids into Warehouse No. 1, while the real goods are hidden at the border. When the public auction begins, let these Chinese buy the scrap at exorbitant prices..."

"I see." Lin Yu's lips curled into a playful smile. "This wasn't a simple hacking attack, but a corporate espionage operation designed to lure the enemy away from their base."

"Su Yuqing, Chairman Wu, listen up." Lin Yu turned around abruptly, his eyes sharp as knives. "They've set a trap for us, trying to make us buy counterfeit goods. Well, let's play along."

"Chairman Wu, spread the word immediately that although our data was destroyed, you remember the approximate location. We need to focus our efforts on destroying the 'Mowanji' boulder at the 'Old Pit First Mine'."

"But...that stone is fake!" Wu Qinmao exclaimed anxiously. "It was a trap set by our competitors!"

"We need to make them think we're in the bureau." A glint of shrewdness flashed in Lin Yu's eyes. "Su Yuqing, contact the domestic finance department and bring 50 million yuan into the open. Prepare for the auction with great fanfare. I want everyone to think that Yunnan Jade is betting everything on that fake stone."

"Then... what is our real goal?" Su Yuqing asked, though she was puzzled, she still subconsciously trusted Lin Yu.

"The real target is the shipment that the other side is hiding at the border, afraid to show themselves."

Lin Yu drew a line on the map, pointing in the direction of Sister Mu.

"The coded telegram just now revealed that the real top-bid rough stone was bribed by the border guards by their rival, the 'Kalen Group,' and hidden in an abandoned military camp in Muse, with the intention of smuggling it in on the last day of the public auction. They thought they could get away with it, but little did they know that I had overheard their 'whispers.'"

"But Mr. Lin, there are heavy guards over there, how can we take it?" Wu Qinmao asked.

"All's fair in war." Lin Yu took out his satellite phone. "Acha, how's your preparation going over there?"

A crisp female voice came from the other end of the phone: "We've been waiting for your orders. The border patrol has been rotated, and my SWAT team is disguised as local villagers and ready to move at any time."

"Okay." Lin Yu hung up the phone and said to Wu Qinmao, "Go and give the Karen Group some 'false information,' say that I've discovered a smuggling route and am planning to smuggle some 'smuggled goods' tonight. Draw their attention to the old ways."

"and then?"

"Then..." Lin Yu put on his coat, pushed open the door and went out, the night wind blowing the corner of his coat, "we'll use a 'cut off their supply line' tactic. Since they want us to buy counterfeit goods, we'll block their path to genuine products. This is called giving them a taste of their own medicine."

Late at night, at the Muse border.

The rain poured down.

The guards of the Karen Group were hiding in their tents drinking and playing cards, completely unaware that a group of "villagers" had silently crept up to the outskirts of the military camp.

Meanwhile, in Yangon, U Khin Maung, following Lin Yu's instructions, was leading a group of people to take measurements and photos at the Lao Keng site, and even ostentatiously invited the media.

The owner of the Karen Group watched the surveillance footage and smiled smugly: "These Chinese people really fell for it, thinking it was the top bid. By the time they spend hundreds of millions on a piece of junk, our real stuff will have already been auctioned off. Then..."

Before he could finish speaking, a frantic shout came from the walkie-talkie: "Boss! Something terrible has happened! Sister Mu's warehouse... the warehouse has been raided! That batch of hidden Imperial Green jadeite is gone!"

"What?!" Boss Karen smashed the wine glass in his hand.

The Myanmar jade auction opened the following morning.

When everyone thought that Yunnan Jade would bet heavily on the "Mowanji" boulder, Lin Yu slowly drove into the auction showroom with a giant raw stone weighing two tons, with an old skin and covered in pine flowers.

The entire audience erupted in uproar.

"This...isn't this the legendary 'Hpakant Sacred Stone'? How did it end up in his hands?"

Lin Yu jumped onto the roof of the car, held up the tender document in his hand, and said with piercing eyes, "Gentlemen, this is the real champion of the tender! Last night, on a rainy night, I just went for a walk and unexpectedly found this big guy."

He turned to look at the ashen-faced boss, Karen, and smiled slightly: "Doing business isn't about hacking skills, but about respect for this land and... a little bit of luck."

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully intercepted a competitor's core resources, completing the "Secretly Obtaining Resources" achievement.]

[Reward: Unlocks the "Counter-Spy" skill, increasing the success rate of public auctions by 10%.]

[Hint: The real battle is just beginning.]